The website for the Fifth International Volvox Conference (Volvox 2019) is live, with registration set to begin January, 2019:
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Evolution, transitions, and volvocine algae
The website for the Fifth International Volvox Conference (Volvox 2019) is live, with registration set to begin January, 2019:
The 2018 meeting of the Phycological Society of America and the International Society of Protistologists will take place July 29 – August 2, 2018 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC.
Last month, I attended the Fourth Annual LAMP Symposium, “Religious and Scientific Perspectives on the Future of Life” at Emory University (LAMP is the Georgia Tech/Emory Leadership and Multifaith Program). The talks were an interesting mix, including some straight-up science, some thoughtful discussions of the interactions between science and religion, and a bit of absolute pseudo-profound bullshit.
Image from www.chlamy2018.com.
The website for the 18th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas is live at www.chlamy2018.com/. The meeting will be at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC June 17-21, 2018. Abstract submission is open, with submissions due by May 26, 2018.
The Fifth International Volvox Conference will be held at the University of Tokyo July 26-29, 2019, hosted by Professor Hisayoshi Nozaki. The tentative schedule is as follows:
Friday 26 July 2019
Registration and welcoming reception and poster set up.Saturday 27 July 2019
Oral session and Poster session
MixerSunday 28 July 2019
Oral session
Dinner partyMonday 29 July 2019
One day and/or half day trips to Volvox-field collection/algal culture collection at NIES etc. (not determined).
AbGradCon is an astrobiology conference for graduate students and other early-career researchers. It is intended to provide
a unique setting for astrobiologically-inclined graduate students and early career researchers to come together to share their research, collaborate, and network,
and it’s coming to Georgia Tech next year.
AbGradCon 2018 will be hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. The conference venue and attendee lodging will be at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center. The Technical Program for AbGradCon 2018 runs from June 4-8, while the Proposal Writing Retreat (PWR) will be held on June 1-4.
The 70th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 19–21, 2017 in Denver, Colorado, will include a few talks about Volvox and Chlamydomonas motility. Timothy Pedley from Cambridge will present “An improved squirmer model for Volvox locomotion“:
The Fourth International Volvox Meeting in St. Louis was everything I hoped. It was well organized, small enough to talk to everyone, and full of great talks. David Kirk was indeed there, briefly, though I failed to get a photo, and so was David Queller.
I thought I was pretty connected in the (relatively small) Volvox world, but there were several people there I’d never met and lots of research that was news to me. I’ll be blogging more about some of that research, but for now I’ll just share a few photos from the meeting.
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is the perfect setting for a movie with scientist working on super high-tech stuff.
If you’re a grad student or postdoc planning to attend the Fourth International Volvox Conference, don’t forget that travel grant applications are due this Saturday.
Some travel awards will be granted to students and postdocs attending the Fourth International Volvox Conference (Volvox 2017) in St. Louis. Applications are due July 1, 2017. If you are planning to attend the meeting as a student or postdoc, you really should apply.